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MITRE ATT&CK® Malware

S0200: Dipsind

Dipsind is a malware family of backdoors that appear to be used exclusively by PLATINUM. [1]

EnterpriseS0200MalwareObject v1.1Modified
Glexia's Take · Automated analysis

Security context for executives and security teams

Automation confidenceMedium

S0200: Dipsind describes [Dipsind](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0200) is a malware family of backdoors that appear to be used exclusively by [PLATINUM](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0068). (Citation: Microsoft PLATINUM April 2016)

Executive priority

S0200: Dipsind is an official MITRE ATT&CK software. Glexia treats it as defensive behavior context for prioritizing monitoring, control validation, and response planning without using the object by itself as an attribution claim.

Technical view

Security teams should validate S0200: Dipsind by reviewing the official ATT&CK relationships, mapped tactics (the mapped ATT&CK tactic context), supported platforms (Windows), and available local telemetry before making detection or mitigation decisions.

Likely telemetry

  • Official ATT&CK relationships and object metadata
  • Network, endpoint, and security-tool telemetry

Detection direction

  • Validate whether S0200: Dipsind appears in your detection coverage and tabletop scenarios.
  • Use the object to align executive risk language with SOC, incident response, and detection engineering work.
  • Do not treat ATT&CK relationship context as attribution without corroborating evidence.

Mitigation priorities

  • Map the object to existing controls and identify missing telemetry or response ownership.
  • Prioritize mitigations that reduce exposure on the listed platforms and tactics.
  • Review adjacent ATT&CK relationships before changing policy, detections, or reporting language.
Additional notes and limits

Baseline Glexia take generated from the official MITRE ATT&CK STIX object, source hash, tactics, platforms, and detection fields. It is safe to replace with a richer model-generated take for the same source hash later.

This baseline take is source-grounded and schema-validated, but it does not include environment-specific telemetry, incident evidence, or threat-intelligence corroboration.

Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.

Official MITRE ATT&CK definition

Dipsind

Dipsind is a malware family of backdoors that appear to be used exclusively by PLATINUM. [1]

View the same entry on attack.mitre.org (MITRE-hosted reference; in-page links above use the Glexia ATT&CK library.)

Glexia analysis

How security teams should use this page

Treat this object as behavior context, not an attribution claim. Validate the related groups, software, data sources, and mitigations against official ATT&CK relationships and your own telemetry before making control-coverage decisions.

ATT&CK relationship table

Techniques used

This mirrors the MITRE pattern of making group, software, campaign, and technique relationships scannable. Relationship notes come from mirrored ATT&CK relationship text when available.

7 rows
DomainIDNameRelationship / procedure
EnterpriseT1105Ingress Tool Transfer

Dipsind can download remote files.[1]

EnterpriseT1573.001Symmetric CryptographySub-technique

Dipsind encrypts C2 data with AES256 in ECB mode.[1]

EnterpriseT1547.004Winlogon Helper DLLSub-technique

A Dipsind variant registers as a Winlogon Event Notify DLL to establish persistence.[1]

EnterpriseT1029Scheduled Transfer

Dipsind can be configured to only run during normal working hours, which would make its communications harder to distinguish from normal traffic.[1]

EnterpriseT1059.003Windows Command ShellSub-technique

Dipsind can spawn remote shells.[1]

EnterpriseT1132.001Standard EncodingSub-technique

Dipsind encodes C2 traffic with base64.[1]

EnterpriseT1071.001Web ProtocolsSub-technique

Dipsind uses HTTP for C2.[1]

Associated objects

Groups, software, and campaigns

GroupEnterprise

G0068: PLATINUM

PLATINUM is an activity group that has targeted victims since at least 2009. The group has focused on targets associated with governments and related organizations in South and Southeast Asia. [1]

Relationship explorer

All related ATT&CK context

Change history

Object version and sync metadata

The fields below describe the current mirrored snapshot. When Glexia retains multiple ATT&CK source imports, you can open the table to compare the same object across releases (hashes and MITRE timestamps). For MITRE’s own release notes and roadmap, see ATT&CK resources — Updates.

ATT&CK release
19.2
Object version
1.1
Created
Modified
Raw hash
ffb9dd572d074bf4...
Imported snapshots across ATT&CK releases(2)
ReleaseBundle importedObject versionModifiedStatusRaw hash
19.21.1Current bundleffb9dd572d07…
19.11.1Older bundleffb9dd572d07…
Raw source

Mirrored ATT&CK source object

The raw object is retained through the mirrored ATT&CK source bundle and object hash. The raw endpoint returns the exact object from the mirrored bundle when available.

Source references

External references and citations

MITRE external references are preserved separately from Glexia analysis so citations remain traceable to their original source records.

  1. [1]
    Microsoft PLATINUM April 2016

    Windows Defender Advanced Threat Hunting Team. (2016, April 29). PLATINUM: Targeted attacks in South and Southeast Asia. Retrieved February 15, 2018.

    Open source URL
  2. [2]
    Dipsind

    (Citation: Microsoft PLATINUM April 2016)

  3. [3]
    mitre-attackS0200
    Open source URL
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